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Xi Warned US Not to Fall Into ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What’s That Mean?

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.

Recently, at the U.S.-China summit in Beijing, Premier Xi [Jinping] mentioned that he hoped that both parties, the United States and China, could avoid the Thucydides Trap.

What did that mean? It refers to a book and an article by the well-known political scientist Graham Allison.

I learned how to pronounce Thucydides and that the “trap” is a flawed analysis.

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